Category: 3. Middle East

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday renewed his call for “an immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip and expressed his “profound hope” for “dialogue, reconciliation and lasting peace in the region,” following an…

Current and former Facebook leadership reached the agreement with shareholders only one day into the trial.

Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms have agreed to settle claims seeking $8bn for the damage…

A French court on Thursday ordered the release of Lebanese national Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, one of Europe’s longest-serving political prisoners, Anadolu reports.

The Paris Court of Appeals sentencing chamber…

Israeli forces have bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church, killing three people and wounding at least ten others, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, as the military continues its assault across the besieged enclave.

At least one person is…

Israeli army forces demolished three Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Anadolu reports.

Military bulldozers stormed the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank and razed the buildings owned…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that “specific steps” have been agreed to end the escalating violence in Syria, following a series of unprovoked Israeli airstrikes on the capital Damascus that left…

United States President Donald Trump and US Attorney General Pam Bondi have come under fire over a government review of the death of the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, in prison. That review found that Epstein…

During a session at the UN Security Council on Wednesday, the Executive Director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell, revealed alarming figures about the impact of the ongoing Israeli offensive on Gaza. 

She confirmed that…

Residents emerged from their homes to scenes of devastation on Thursday after government forces withdrew from the Syrian Druze-majority city of Sweida, leaving behind looted shops, burned homes and bodies littering the streets after days of…